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THE BEST NAME IN THE WORLD'Great Grimsby, misleading name right? It is also known as "It might never be Dull in Hull, but it's always fucking Grim in Grimsby" and is an established sea port, located on the coast of North East Linconshite, England. Rumour has it that the town was founded by the Grim Reaper in the early 9th century, reportedly accustomed as a place where crime was encouraged and rewarded. To this day, the town has pretty much the same customs. With a population of 223 people, Grimsby is generally regarded as one of the most populated places in the region, and even the country. In the year 2008 census, it was ranked as the 56th most populated town in England. So you don't have to visit it to see how terrible it is, the name says it all!
Grimsby is also linked with its very unfortunate neighboring village, Cleethorpes. This linking caused the government to establish Cleethorpes as a part of Grimsby, increasing the population in 2004 from 223 to 281. This enhanced Grimsby's position as one the most populated towns in the country.
- 1 History
- 2 Places of Interest and Landmarks
- 3 Education
- 4 Notable Connections to Grimsby
- 5 Sport
- 6 We Piss On Your Fish
- 7 See Also
In the year 945 A.D, Death (Or the Grim Reaper) was leaving an old shack in the Lincolnshire marshes after killing an elderly couple. Whilst wading through the festering swamps, he noted an area of higher land. Upon climbing it he discovered the area was reasonably flat and saw an opportunity for building a town. Over the next 50 years, Death did this, and made the town we all know and
hate love as Grimsby. Being a modest chap, he named it after himself. Unfortunately, within the first few years of establishing his putative town, no people moved there due to their apprehension towards the Grim Reaper leading a town. Eventually, however, people settled there when he put adverts in the local newspaper claiming that there would be no rules under his authority. By the 11th century, the town's population had risen to 210,547 people, all of them fathered by the Grim Reaper.
Vikings and Chavs[edit]
In the late 11th century, England was thrown into chaos when the Vikings and Chavs invaded. Due to Grimsby's position on the coast, it was noticed immediately by the sailors on the longboats and targeted for attack. The Vikings and Chavs landed on the shore, marched straight into the marshy town and talked to Death face-to-face.
Death, startled and frightened by the mysterious invaders, fled the town and went into hiding. Vikings then took over Grimsby, leaving Grimsby to be a complete shit hole, and smelling of fish (apart from when the petro-chemical plant explodes).
In the late 970s, porn stars arrived in the town. These Nordic sexual conquestians spread their love like wildfire and left with new diseases to take back to their homeland. The local women, being easier than a This Morning competition question, abandoned the consequential offspring of their invasion. And so, with great ease and little education, the Chav population began to take hold.
Middle Ages[edit]
Eventually the Vikings were driven out of England, and hence they were also driven out of Grimsby. The country began to stabilize and this offered a chance for Grimsby to expand. So far, its entire population of 200,000 people were living in an incredibly small area, forced into poverty. Despite the fact no one paid for anything and the fact that there was no rules, people were starting to wish there was.
In 1569 salvation came. A small group of residents established a dock on the coast and began a small fishing company. By selling the fish they caught they made enough money to buy better materials and land, and therefore saved the town. In just 20 years Grimsby soon became the largest town in the county, and poverty was extinguished. The town learned a vital lesson for the future: Easy money can be made on the docks. The men of the town soon gave up fishing and moved into the more lucrative trade of drug smuggling. The women of the town were also happy to make money of their own on the docks, although their trade in crabs was of a different sort of crab to their husbands'.
The town continued to grow and expand after the establishment of the fishing industry, and became
infamous famous for its completely different customs compared to the rest of England. A striking example of one of the town's many quaint customs which survives to this day is the reluctance of its fatter female population to wear anything but the skimpiest clothes. In Grimsby, after so many centuries of poverty, a woman's display of her overly-fleshy thighs and torso is still regarded as a sign of wealth and fertility, rather than a reliance on eating cheap frozen ready meals and scoffing too many crisps.
In 1917, Russia went through a revolution, and afterwards became a communist country. Due to the striking similarities between Grimsby's rules and those of Russia, Grimsby was officially declared communist by its town council in 1931 and accepted shortly afterwards an invitation to join the Soviet Union. This seriously hampered the town's popularity throughout the rest of England, although increased the popularity of the town's many whores with Soviet sailors and increased the town's prosperity by a staggering amount. One famous prostitute of Grimsby renown, the legendary 'Vinegar Tits Betsy' single handedly increased the town's tax revenues by 148% in one year. To this day, Betsy remains a role model to legions of Grimbsy's teenage girls. In 1932 the British government created an 18 mile perimeter 'no-go zone' centred on Grimsby's town centre to cut off the town from the rest of England. England shrugged its shoulders and went on not visiting and generally ignoring Grimsby as it always had, much to native Grimbarians' fury.
In World War 2, Grimsby came under great threat of being bombed by the Nazis, however they were lucky because the Luftwaffe pilots claimed that the town looked as if it had already been bombed. Because of this easy mistake, Grimsby avoided bombing throughout the entire war. The few buildings which were left standing were razed by the town council in the 1960s, and the town was remodeled on Soviet principles. New suburbs were thus established, espescially on the gulag model, with Nunsthorpe being particularly noteworthy as the only one to house leading Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
After the war, the cold war began. Grimsby, as part of the USSR, was the only part of England to support the East, and became an outcast throughout the country. The most significant event of The Cold War in Grimsby happened in 1962, when the Russians started secretly (to the rest of England but the general joy of the town) began building nuclear silos in the town. They were discovered by an American spy satellite doing this, and Britain was informed at once. Britain threatened to fine Russia £100 if they continued to produce the silos (not because £100 was a lot of money in those days, but rather because Russia was so poor it £100 was enough to destabilise its currency). Despite this threat, Russia continued to ship nuclear weapons to Grimsby. So the Americans stepped in as they usually do and threatened to destroy the next Russian ship which came anywhere near Grimsby. Russia backed down. This event is known as "The Grimsby Missile Crisis." In 1995 the fishing stocks lowered. Because of this, the residents of Grimsby couldn't afford new exports from different parts of England. Fearing another decline into poverty, the town revolted against the communist leaders, and overthrew them. This was the end of communism in Grimsby.
In the year 2000 a town council was established in Grimsby. This council began to adopt the traditions of other towns in the country, but had difficulty doing so because the residents had grown so use to the no rules and no currency idea.
Places of Interest and Landmarks[edit]
The Nunny - A place where most chavs live. If you walk around this place, you are bound to get stabbed by a passing chav with a screwdriver or broken glass bottle.
Look out for the fascinating 'not spelt very well' graffiti scrawled onto a wall of the garage opposite the swimin' baffs - 'welcome to the brox' - a classic!
NOTE: Do not visit during Father's Day - this is a very confusing time for most of the residents.
The Grange - An amazing place to visit, its currently labled Baghdad 2.
Fish and Chick - Great for food poisoning.
The Dock Tower - Or 'Gandalf's tower', built primarily out of jealousy because of Saruman's beautiful residence in Isengard.
Freeman Street Market - The source of the Black Death in the UK. People of the Freeman Clan are permited to drive their sheep up this street, mainly because their cars were stolen. Also the current black market for selling Russian nuclear weapons that were left since the American intervention.
Freshney Place Shopping Centre - The original stage of Dawn of The Dead (both original and remake). Also no acting required from local residents.
Grimsby Docks - Unofficially known as area 51.
That shitty bar on the waterfont - You know, like that one in The Perfect Storm but without George Clooney in it. In the bar Grimsby's one salty sea dog who is still making a profit from fishing (about 3 shrimp every 4th Tuesday) tells lots of salty sea tales whilst eating some salty crisps. Nobody really believes any of his tales about doing battle with giant robotic squid people and the one where he discovered a new land, which later turned out to be Norway. This is because he has a crippling addiction to Ribena . . . mixed with meths and a healthy dose of Tesco own brand whiksy.
Normal People - A normal person has not been seen in Grimsby in over 50 years.
Please note: Any sign with the words 'welcome to' in front of the place name are in fact Cops with Cameras stage sets. Please keep your valuables out of sight at all times.
Unlike the UK, attendance at school is not compulsory and is in fact discouraged. Pupils who attend school are routinely pictured and ridiculed in the local newspaper, the Grimsby Evening Turd. This is done to ensure that Grimsby schools always come bottom in the national league tables for exam results as a wooden spoon is an award of a kind thus allowing the local authority to claim they have award-winning schools.
The schools are also unfair. If you join a school football team they make sure you dont play, even if you are good.
Considering crime is the only job which requires an education in Grimsby, it is the only thing taught to children at school. The basic curriculum for Grimsby's school looks something like this:
Petty Crime School: At the age of 16 all children are forced by law to go to Petty Crime School, where they learn the basics of crime. At the age of 20, after 4 years, students leave Petty Crime School, and then have to go to Organized Crime School.
Organized Crime School: At Organized Crime School students learn how to plan crimes and edge onto advanced level felonies. After another 4 years, students leave Organized Crime School, and then have the choice of getting a job or going onto Advanced Crime College
Advanced Crime College: Students who do well enough at Organized Crime School often go to Advanced Crime School, where they are taught the fundamentals of crime and learn how to lead crime organizations.
Petty Crime School[edit]
During the four year course, students learn how to mug people, rob the local store, pickpocket, backhand people, shoot air rifles and get away from the police on foot.
Organized Crime School[edit]
When students go to Organized Crime School they learn the basics of been a part time criminal . Whilst there they learn how to pickpocket on advanced level, rob banks, how to fire pistols, how to set explosives and how to execute people. The vital skills learned provide students with jobs such as associates to the local gangs in Grimsby. Although without passing the written exam which follows the lessons students cannot get jobs any higher than associates. Most crime organizations in Grimsby require that workers completed there crime test paper with a level from A-C to reach at least the rank of soldier.
A local man with blonde hair and glasses who wears jeans and a black hoodie usually stabs innocent little girls with a piece of shrapnel stuck to his penis. He is often seen with another local man, standing by with their getaway vehicle usually a bright orange bicycle stolen from an old woman.
Advanced Crime College/ Grimsby (Mental) Institute[edit]
If students do well enough in Organized Crime School, they have the option to go to Advanced Crime College. Here students learn the skills needed to become important members of gangs, perhaps even bosses. The college requires that students passed there crime test in Organized Crime School before they let them in.
Notable Connections to Grimsby[edit]
- Jack The Ripper is rumored to have grown up in Grimsby, despite the fact that no one knew who he was.
- Death was the founder of Grimsby.
- Pollution is known to be Grimsby's biggest export.
- Jimmy Saville, known as the oldest chav in England, grew up in Grimsby.
- The Anti-Christ was born in Grimsby in the year 1993
- Eddie (Iron Maiden) is known to be an ex-Member of Parliament for Grimsby and was notably the best dressed and mannered.
- Satan, arguably the best Grimbarian except Ryan Giggs
- Ryan Giggs arguably the best Grimbarian ever conceived excluding possibly Satan. Many believed his super-injunction was to protect his cock from being caught where it shouldn't be; in fact he just didn't want the world to know he came from Grimsby.
- Fish Fingers, one of the most popular porno movies ever, was filmed in Grimsby.
- Tourist gnomes have been spotted vacationing in various local beauty spots dotted around the town of Grim and getting pissed up and starting fights in local kebab houses - possibly war veterans of the great gnome wars of Botswana
Grimsby's most famous sport is pit fighting, which involves two people thrown into a pit and forced to kill each other. The sport is a local thing though, because it is the only place the sport is played and watched in the world. Grimsby also enjoy football. Grimsby Town F.C currently play in the Coca Cola Football League Two. The team has come close to been promoted several times in the past ten years, until the fans woke up and realised they were dreaming. The team is currently in 24th place with 0 points, 3/4 of the way into the season.
We Piss On Your Fish[edit]
It is customary for everybody in the town to piss on fish due to go to other areas as it leaves the docks, particularly fish destined for Yorkshire and Scunthorpe. The silly cunts who live there just assume it's been salted to aid its preservation.


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Hi Everyone, I am so honored to be your "Hostess" this Monday. Today I am showcasing a very cute image called "Patchy Bear". I really love all the cute little animals Wendy at "Digital Delights" has designed.
So I wanted to make a card showing how you can incorporate different sets of designs with your main image. For instance, my papers are from the digital paper set called "It's A Party" and the sentiment is part of the "Ice Cream Parlor Sentiment Set". It is so much fun to mix and match all the wonderful designs at "Digital Delights".
Now for how I created the rest of my card. I really wanted the image to be the focal point so I printed it a little larger than normal and colored it with Copics. I did want the fabulous papers to show so I added my layered image at a slant. I added some corner dies, cute enamel dots and a bright bow. I just love the wonderful bright colors.
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Last updated on August 2010
Prospective Study of Infant Dengue
Brief description of study
Dengue is a common disease and a major health concern in the Philippines. Dengue is caused by a virus transmitted from the bite of an infected mosquito. The purpose of this study is to understand why some infants remain well or have a mild illness, and why other infants become very sick from this virus. Studies have shown that the mother's immune response to dengue can play a role in the infant's immune response and affect whether or not the infant becomes sick. This study will enroll up to 10,000 healthy infants 6-14 weeks old and their mothers in San Pablo City. At the first study visit, information about the mother and birth will be collected and blood samples will be taken from the mother and infant. The infant will have blood drawn at all 3 study visits. The infants will be followed until the age of 16 months. The information obtained from this study may help in the development and future testing of a safe and effective dengue vaccine.
Detailed Study Description
This is a prospective natural history study to define the levels of maternally-acquired neutralizing antibody (Ab) and other correlates of immunity that may protect against the development of dengue hemorrhagic fever in infants. Approximately 10,000 mother-infant pairs will be enrolled to achieve a continuous study cohort of approximately 4,000 children less than 16 months of age. Children leave the study when they reach 16 months of age and are replaced by new participants at 6-14 weeks of age. The investigators will recruit study participants among 3rd trimester pregnant women receiving pre-natal care and women with newborns receiving post-natal care in San Pablo City. The first aim of this study is to define levels of serotype-specific neutralizing Abs associated with protective immunity against symptomatic dengue virus (DV). Neutralizing Ab titers in blood samples collected from Filipino infants before DV infection, and predicted neutralizing Ab titers at the time of illness, will be correlated with disease severity rankings and peak viremia levels. Neutralizing Ab titers at which infants developed symptomatic dengue will be determined. The second aim will be to delineate risk factors contributing to the pathogenesis of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) in infants. From pre-illness blood samples, the association of Ab neutralizing capacity or enhancement of infection with DHF will be measured while controlling for other potential covariates. The covariates will include measures representing viral load and infant host immune responses. The third aim will be to strengthen the capacity for diagnosis and research on dengue in the Philippines. A collaborative and international consortium has been formed to advance dengue research in the Philippines. The research will generate vital data for the effective testing of dengue vaccines and future public health vaccination campaigns throughout the region. This study will enroll up to 10,000 healthy infants 6-14 weeks old and their mothers in San Pablo City. The infants will be followed until the age of 16 months. Mothers and infants will enter the study when the infant is between the ages of 6-14 weeks. At the 1st study visit, data on the mother and the birth will be collected and blood samples will be collected from the mother and infant. The infant will have blood drawn at all 3 study visits. The 2nd study visit will take place when the infant is between the ages of 4-6 months. At this time, data on infant health will be obtained. In all infants, an anticoagulated blood sample will be collected for plasma and PBMC isolation. At age 15-16 months, 250 infants per year will be selected to return for a 3rd study visit. The 250 infants will be randomly selected from those without prior symptomatic dengue and whose study visits 2 and 3 span a significant portion of the peak DV transmission season (June-October). Data on infant health will be obtained and an anticoagulated blood sample for plasma will be collected. Surveillance for DV infections will occur year round and throughout the entire period of an infant's study participation (ages 6 weeks-16 months). Study personnel will screen infants in the study who present with acute febrile illnesses. Those infants will have history and clinical data abstracted, and an acute illness blood sample (serum) taken for dengue diagnostic testing. A convalescent blood sample (serum) will also be taken 10-14 days later. The primary outcome measured will be the identification of DV infection and the classification of disease severity. The secondary outcome measured will be the estimation of peak viremia levels.
Clinical Study Identifier: NCT00377754


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Chanson manquante pour "Gucci Mane" ? Proposer les paroles
Proposer une correction des paroles de "Choppa Shoppin'"
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Paroles de la chanson Choppa Shoppin' par Gucci ManeBig Cat, Laflare (Big Cat)
Gucci Mane, Laflare (Gucci Gucci)
We will be be respected (respect)
See we can get it poppin (we can get it poppin)
See we can get it poppin (nigga we can get it poppin)
Cause I went choppa shoppin (nigga choppa shoppin)
Cause I went choppa shoppin (yeah we went choppa shoppin)
[Gucci Mane]
You niggas not a army, cause you ain't hard enough
You nothin like a boss, cause y'all ain't smart enough
See we can get it poppin (poppin) cause I went choppa shoppin (shoppin)
I keep one in the chamber (chamber) so I ain't gotta cock it (cock it)
You gets no respect ('spect) I mean none at all (none at all)
I'm in the junk yard (junk yard) runnin body parts (body parts)
Roll another blunt ('nother blunt) Magic another blunt (never blunt)
It might look gravy (gravy) but this ain't what'cha want
My money on the rise (on the rise) yo' money standin still (standin still)
On fire with the tools (tools) better with the steel (steel)
Fuck with my nigga Cat (Cat) nigga watch your mouth (mouth)
Cause any disrespect ('spect) I'll be at'ch house (house)
[Gucci Mane]
Done take your bitch (bitch) - fuck her too
I thought we was cool, but youse a sucker too
See we can shoot it out (shoot it out) or we can duke it out (duke it out)
But all that Hollywood shit I can do without (this fo'real)
I roll with drug dealers (drug dealers) body snatchers (body snatchers)
Cap peelers (cap peelers) and kidnappers (kidnappers)
Murderers (murderers) and burglarers (burglarers)
Mercinaries (mercenaries) you ain't never scary (never scary)
I be locked down in jail eatin commisary
Have yo' body cold like the month of February
Gucci Mane bitch, Big Cat ruckus
You ain't gotta like us, but you must respect us
Ay it's a movement, it 'bout to be some changes
We will be respected, what the fuck y'all niggas thankin? (Hahaha)
We squaded up, camouflaged down, ragged up
We can get it poppin, got ther choppers in the stash box (stash box)
With Magic on the scene (scene) niggas gettin shook (shook)
We knock 'em down first round and we ain't usin' hooks (nope)
I'm from the streets so you know I think the same way
And plus my gun don't shoot water down dawg naan day
[Young Snead]
You need bricks nigga? Me and Gucci got it (Gucci got it)
One call and Young Snead'll have them toolies poppin
You could be from the North (North) or from the South (South)
I don't discriminate, I'm shootin if your run your mouth
We ridin speed boats (speed boats), and they full of coke (full of coke)
The word is out - we supply the whole East coast
Lemonhead chains (chains), and my watch is Skittles (Skittles)
New H2 interior like peanut brittle
See we can get it poppin - UHH...
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I've just read this blog post from Karyn Gray: Ma te tuakana te teina e totika. Ma te teina te tuakana e totika.
It's well worth a read, but I really wanted to share one key point from it.
Karyn talks about some of her mentors and mentions that 3 of them are younger than her and some are less experienced, but this does not matter. Karyn is still able to learn from them and be challenged.
"Tuakana teina is not about age or even about experience. Its about knowing who is going to challenge you in a constructive way and help you continue to learn regardless of your position or theirs."
This is mentoring. This is the mentor/mentee relationship. It's also a reminder that both the mentor and the mentee can benefit from this relationship.
In my wider work I often work with teachers/school leaders who have far more experience (and age) than I do. Sometimes I wonder how I can be helping/supporting/guiding them, and yes, nerves can be there sometimes! This post has reminded me that we ALL have something to offer. It's also not about having all the answers but working together to work through the issue/focus they currently have.


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by @TaraLipinsky
More Columns here.
In this week's That Thing You Missed, what might finally be too much information about a former NBA player, what might be the best college band performance ever, and the Buffalo Sabres have taken up ice dancing. No, that's not a slam on how poorly they're playing.
Puck This
There is absolutely no argument you can make to convince me there are any athletes on Earth tougher than professional hockey players.
And then I stumbled across the above video.
Apparently the Buffalo Sabres organization holds a "Rookie Dance Off" as a way to mock the newest team members.
Yes, you'll see everything from Twerking to Break Dancing and even a little John Travolta circa Pulp Fiction.
And with the way they've been playing, those guys better keep working on those moves.
Wow. It's a good thing they got rid of Lindy Ruff, huh?
Now he's off dancing with the Stars.
NBA Toilet Humor
There are a lot of fans interested in their favorite player's pre-game rituals.
There is, however, some information we really don't need to know.
Case in point? Recently on NBA Open Court former Bulls player Steve Kerr described in full detail how his teammate Toni Kukoc of Croatia binged and then, um, purged on game day.
I can personally get on board with "12-year old boy humor" and assuming you can too, watch the video to find out where this story, um, goes.
Easily the best video of the week comes out of The Ohio State (and as a Michigan girl this kills me to say).
The self-proclaimed "Best Damn Band in The Land" appears to be just that as they do a half-time tribute to one of the best performers of all time: Michael Jackson.
And the talented crew not only incorporates instrument playing and marching, it features band members actually Moonwalking into formation.
The. Entire. Band.
And, yes, they are all wearing a white glove.
As if their football team isn't good enough this season.
Squid Girl?
I have no freakin' idea what Michelle Wie eating live squid has to do with golf or the LPGA tour but I can tell you this: Eating a live squid is one of the rare things I'd actually love to watch Tiger Woods do.
Fiddling Around With The World Series
It's time I bring a little class to That Thing You Missed.
It turns out both the St. Louis and Boston Symphony Orchestras are baseball lovers.
To show their respective teams their support the two symphonies hooked up to create a video.
And, hell yes, there's music playing. But, more importantly there's trash talk.
Who do you think plays best?
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Though it is early in the fall semester, all Class of 2014 students involved in the Nittany Lion Fund have already accepted job offers, according to J. Randall Woolridge, professor of finance in the Penn State Smeal College of Business and president of the Nittany Lion Fund LLC.
"This is a huge accomplishment," said Woolridge, "and it speaks to our consistently high placement history and high quality of graduates."
The Nittany Lion Fund is a unique opportunity for high-performing students in finance. The student-managed investment fund has more than $5 million in assets and provides Smeal students with the ability to connect to real-world investors without leaving the Business Building. It is one of the few student-managed funds with actual investor money — not endowment dollars.
"Our network on Wall Street includes hundreds of alumni who are willing to assist students in their job search."
-- J. Randall Woolridge, professor of finance and president of the Nittany Lion Fund
"We have 77 investors, and it really changes the level of accountability," explained Woolridge. "Having real investors changes the dynamic for the students and gives them a heightened sense of responsibility."
According to Woolridge, more than 80 percent of Nittany Lion Fund graduates take jobs at Wall Street firms.
"Our network on Wall Street includes hundreds of alumni who are willing to assist students in their job search," said Woolridge. "And each semester we have an alumni networking event in New York to bring together our alumni and students."
In addition to networking with alumni, the fund sponsors a trip to Wall Street each semester, and students visit firms like Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Citigroup and BOA Merrill Lynch.
"J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Blackrock and BOA Merrill Lynch regularly recruit students at Penn State," said Woolridge.
The Nittany Lion Fund's student managers operate out of the Rogers Family Trading Room, a state-of-the-art classroom and laboratory that replicates real-world trading experience. Students in the Trading Room use dataset resources to simulate trading, portfolio management and other finance-related models, and real-time stock tickers and data boards offer important financial information.


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Restricted vessel traffic permitted on Miss. River
The Coast Guard is permitting restricted commercial vessel traffic on the Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Miss., as crews work to remove oil from a leaking barge, a Guard spokesman said Thursday.
Chief Petty Officer Paul Roszkowski said southbound commercial traffic was being allowed to pass through the area during daylight hours and northbound commercial traffic will be permitted to move at night.
A 16-mile stretch of the river was closed Sunday after two oil barges hit a railroad bridge and one of them started leaking light crude.
The Coast Guard allowed the first barges to pass Wednesday to test how the movement on the river would affect efforts to clean up the leaking oil and take it off the damaged barge.
"We understand the impact that the closure has had on industry and commerce. One of our main goals besides cleaning up the accident is getting traffic moving again. We will push to keep traffic moving as long as it is safe and doesn't impact operations," Roszkowski said.
At times there have been more than 70 vessels, including tow boats, and hundreds of barges idled at the affected section of the river that separates Mississippi and Louisiana. The numbers fluctuate as the barges are let through and others arrive.
The leaking barge is pushed up against the Louisiana side of the river, across from Vicksburg's Riverwalk and Lady Luck casinos.
Crews resumed pumping oil on Thursday from the leaking barge onto another barge - a process known as lightering.
The operation began Wednesday but was halted for a time after the barge shifted unexpectedly when the oil was being transferred. The barge is still leaking and the main concern was it moving in a way that would allow oil to come out faster, Roszkowski said.
The river is not expected to reopen fully before the transfer and cleanup is complete.
Roszkowski said the cause of the accident remains under investigation.
Nature's Way Marine LLC of Theodore, Ala., has been named the responsible party for the oil spill, a designation that is assigned under the federal Oil Pollution Act.
The two tank barges involved in the collision were being pushed by the company's tug Nature's Way Endeavor. Both barges were damaged, but only one leaked.
The company has declined requests for information and referred calls to the Coast Guard.
Companies found responsible for oil spills face civil penalties tied to the amount of oil that spilled into the environment.
The Coast Guard said 7,000 gallons of crude oil were unaccounted for, but it's not clear if it all spilled into the river or if some went into empty spaces inside the barge.
Officials said the oil coming out Thursday was being contained.
The barge is owned by Corpus Christi, Texas-based Third Coast Towing LLC. The company has refused to comment.


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We're making this easyTime and resources are critical in any business environment. These days, the pressures are intensifying across all enterprises and resources are spread thin. To address this concern, we've underlined this storage networking switch with the feature of simplicity to make Fibre Channel installation, setup and deployment faster and easier. With the EZSwitchSetup installation wizard, the switch is up and running in three simple steps. With Brocade Network Advisor and Fabric Vision technology, the enhanced monitoring capabilities makes it easy to manage the fabric while utilizing preconfigured templates that implement twenty years of storage networking best practices in one click. From a management standpoint, these tools make it easy for network administrators to view network statistics to see ahead to any potential disruption to predict issues before they happen. This is the visibility that matters when time and resources are at a premium.
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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Multiplayer Trailer: War Has Changed
Check out this new trailer for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's multiplayer and watch how Sledgehammer Games truly redefines the COD online experience.
Sledgehammer Games' Advanced Warfare trailer for Gamescom 2014 features all of the new features coming to Call of Duty's multiplayer, with most of it stemming from the new Exo Suits that all characters will have. We don't care if those Exo Suits look like they're straight out of 'Elysium,' they have completely changed CoD's online gameplay.
It looks like Sledgehammer Games learned a lot from Titanfall. With the new Exo Suits, you're able to jump much higher than previous games. While you're up there, you can slam downwards to do an instant-kill melee attack. Similar to the Titanfall's mech movements, you can boost in all directions to help dodge and dash out of the line of fire. You can also cloak to give yourself temporary invisibility. There will be a lot more abilities you can unlock as you progress through the ranks. Unfortunately, you must select which Exo abilities you want as part of your loadout, so not all of these awesome moves will be available at the same time.
Just watching this new trailer, you can tell that Advanced Warfare has been listening to the complaints of Call of Duty fans. You no longer have to focus on covering and keeping your head down, you can just dash up to someone and shoot them -- it's all much faster and more fluid than before. In fact, this multiplayer trailer gave us a vibe we haven't felt since Quake III.
In terms of customization, XP is still the standard of progressing and ranking your character. You'll be able to customize your character, including their gear, outfit and Exo Suit. Advanced Warfare will have a Virtual Shooting Range (similar to Battlefield 4) that will let you tryout your new loadouts without having to put your K/D ratio on the line. Virtual Lobbies will let you showcase your character, allowing you to check out your opponents and party members before the game starts.
Once the match starts, there will be customizable scorestreaks for you to rack up, along with co-op scorestreaks for you to develop with your teammates. This will allow you and another player (preferably a buddy who you joined the match with) to use vehicles or heavy ordnance at the same time. There are now three versions of supply drops, Enlisted, Professional and Elite, which are based on the rarity of their contents.
There have been four maps mentioned so far. Riot takes place in prison after a massive riot. The prison itself still has some high tech defense mechanisms in place that can still be used against you or your opponents, and it also has a bunch of bombed out areas. Multiple prison cells means plenty of places for you to use as cover. Ascend takes place in a Space Elevator terminal, which is filled with futuristic technology. You can use the facility's turrets after you get a decent score streak. The Ascend map is also vertically oriented, meaning you'll be getting a lot out of Advanced Warfare's new maneuvers and acrobatics.
The Biolab is a map that features both indoor and outdoor areas. You can get to the roof of the lab and use that as a tactical advantage point against enemies outdoors. Defender is the most impressive level of the bunch. Who knew San Fran could be so deadly? This stage takes place at the Golden Gate Bridge and can get randomly hit with tsunamis that will drastically change the playing field for everyone. Make sure you use your Exo Suit to stay above the waves. You can also pick off players who are trying to keep their bodies afloat. Just remember that players can swim and can shoot once they get their head above water.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is slated for a Nov. 4 release on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PC.
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A Palestinian woman has been detained after allegedly attempting to stab an Israeli soldier at a military checkpoint in the Jordan Valley area of the occupied West Bank Saturday.
According to the Ma'an News, an Israeli army spokesperson confirmed a "suspect approached a soldier with a knife in hand" before being "apprehended" and taken for questioning.
Two Palestinians were killed after injuring Israeli soldiers in separate "car ramming" attacks on Friday.
In the first incident, a Palestinian man was shot dead in East Jerusalem after allegedly running over two Israeli soldiers.
According to the Israeli police, the man, identified as Fadi Khasib, 25, from Ramallah, was shot dead by an Israeli settler on the scene.
Hours later another Palestinian was shot and killed in Beit Ummar, north of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, following an alleged vehicular attack which injured six Israeli soldiers.
A number of attacks have been carried out on Israeli military and civilians since the beginning of last month, the majority in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
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Amazon has second-hand copies of many of the main books.
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Hi there,
I start my CELTA course this January and was wondering if anyone knows where I can get hold of a bunch of second hand books. I can't afford to purchase new books so any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Amazon has second-hand copies of many of the main books.
If you know the titles you want, you can sometimes find reasonably priced copies at AbeBooks Official Site - New & Secondhand Books, New &Used Textbooks, Rare & Out of Print Books.
I've already checked Amazon. Their second hand books are marginally cheaper than new books.
I will check out Abe books.
Just out of curiosity, is anyone looking to sell their CELTA books?


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Though it was once America's dominant import car brand, Volkswagen has long played second fiddle to Honda and Toyota, among others.
There's a reason for this. Volkswagen's models have traditionally been pricier than those from American and Asian automakers. So, while the Volkswagen Jetta didn't sell in the numbers seen by the Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla or Ford Focus, it did possess the handling, build quality and feel of a true European sports sedan.
In an effort to increase sales, Volkswagen decided to produce a Jetta at a price that Americans couldn't refuse. The result was the 2011 model with a price starting at $1,740 less than the 2010 Jetta.
When I first sampled the revised Jetta more than a year ago, it was easy to see where the company saved money.
The most obvious was the interior, which was notably less expensive than the outgoing model. This was surprising. Volkswagen, and its sibling brand Audi, have long set the standard for high-quality interiors.
Similarly, Volkswagen replaced the Jetta's independent rear suspension with a less-expensive torsion bar set-up.
Engines were culled from the corporate shelf, including the ancient 115-horsepower, 2.0-liter four-cylinder and the rough but potent 170-hp 2.5-liter five-cylinder engine. Transmissions include a five-speed manual and a six-speed automatic.
But would the Jetta's lower cost impact its reliability? It was a question worth answering with a three-month, long-term test. Volkswagen of America sent a top-of-the-line 2012 Jetta SEL Premium for my evaluation.
The base Jetta is the 2.0L S model, with an attractive starting price of $16,675, a 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine and a five-speed manual transmission. A six-speed automatic is optional. Standard features include power windows and locks, air-conditioning, radio with CD player, remote keyless entry, power and heated exterior mirrors, six-way adjustable front seats, 60/40-split rear seat, and a tilt/telescopic steering wheel.
If you want the bigger 2.5-liter five-cylinder engine, you'll have to spend more for the 2.5L SE. There are also SEL and SEL Premium models, with additional equipment, but not added performance.
You might also want to investigate the 2.0L TDI Clean Diesel model, with a 2.0-liter turbo diesel engine and a base price of $22,990. It's rated at 30 mpg city, 42 mpg highway and 34 mpg in combined city/highway driving. A Jetta with even better fuel economy is coming soon in the form of the Jetta Hybrid, with an estimated combined city/highway rating of 45 mpg.
If I were choosing a Jetta, there's only one I would opt for: the 2.0T GLI. With a starting price of $23,945, standard features include the wonderfully powerful 2.0-liter, 200-horsepower four-cylinder engine matched with the independent rear suspension that's missing from other Jettas. With a more sporting set-up, this is the one new Jetta that feels like older ones.
And it's the Jetta's change in character from the old model to this one that's the most notable part of this car.
Whereas previous Jettas felt small, the 2012 model has generous cabin space for four full-size Americans — five, if they're friendly. There's more than ample head and legroom.
The cabin is matched with an equally sizable trunk that easily allows for copious amounts of luggage or groceries. Even a trip to the warehouse club can't fill this cargo hold. That said, it would be nice if there were grocery hooks or a cargo net to keep items from sliding around.
Despite the ample accommodations, the Jetta is not mammoth; it's perfectly sized — not too big, not too small.
While jetting around in the Jetta, you'll find the firm front bucket seats have decent side bolstering, even if they're somewhat flat. The tilt/telescopic steering wheel and adjustable driver's seat made it easy to find a comfortable driving position. Visibility is excellent in all directions, so a rear back-up camera is not needed.
Once seated, you might notice the sea of hard plastic that swallows the cabin. This is mitigated by the SEL Premium's two-tone interior with a leather-wrapped steering wheel, metallic trim, leatherette seating and some soft touch surfaces. Still, I wish that the center console were higher and placed further forward in the cabin so it could serve as a center armrest.
The test car had a navigation system integrated with the audio system. The screen is small, and the navigation system's map rarely shows much detail as a result.
The screen's small size also hinders the radio presets. It's great that VW supplies 18 of them, but only six are displayed at one time. To see the next six, you turn a knob, which twirls the display. It can be disconcerting while driving.
As for the powertrain, the potent five-cylinder engine provides good performance if you're shifting for yourself. If you prefer an automatic, you'll find the sport mode much more fun than the normal drive mode, which is notably less exciting.
On the flip side, mileage is decent; overall test mileage was 27.7 mpg, with highway mileage surpassing the EPA's rating of 31 mpg.
Handling is OK, but lacks the sublime European flair you might expect. Low speed bumps are absorbed, but the Jetta doesn't possess the taut, hunkered-down feel of older models, with the car bounding softly over the worst bumps. Pronounced body lean comes on quickly in corners, and the tires scrub off speed if you get too frisky behind the wheel. Braking is adequate. Steering is nicely weighted. Road, engine and tire noise are noticeable, but not bothersome.
The Jetta's performance would have been flawless, but for two issues, one major, one minor.
The major issue was puzzling.
This particular Jetta possessed a putrefying cabin odor that was present from day one. Other Jettas that I have driven have not had this strong petrochemical smell. The aroma was reduced once I placed six Odor Eater shoe inserts on the carpet, but it never dissipated.
The second issue was surprising. The day before I was to turn the car back to Volkswagen, with a little over 3,500 miles on the odometer, the right rear turn signal failed. It's nothing major, but it would require a dealer visit to fix under warranty.
Otherwise, the car was as tight and rattle-free as the day it was delivered. And unlike cars with more adventurous styling, you'll never tire of this car's looks. This is one handsome ride.
Overall, I liked the Jetta's perfect size, roomy cabin, looks and reasonable fuel economy. I tolerated the odor. But I missed the personality it once possessed. While you can get that in the GLI model, albeit at a higher price, most Jettas won't have it.
In the end, that may not matter.
The Jetta fulfills its promise as a Volkswagen. It is a people's car — frugal, roomy and practical. But it's no longer the car that built the Jetta's reputation: that of an inexpensive sports sedan.
It's just an inexpensive sedan.
And while there's nothing wrong with that, it's not the sort of car that will evoke passion.
-Wheelbase: 104.4 inches
-Length: 182.2 inches
-Weight: 3,082 pounds
-Cargo space: 15.5 cubic feet
-Base price, excluding destination charge: $16,675
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US district court for the western district of Virginia held session at Monticello July 4 and naturalized a group of new US citizens. There were a lot of Coca-Cola bottles and logos in evidence. (The CEO of Coke spoke.) We walked to Monticello past the homeless camps of Albemarle County and the beautiful remains of Mr. Jefferson's lirodendron tulipfera.
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Who's got next? Oh, how the tables have turned! Mardy Fish is having an Andy Roddick-like summer (think 2003, when the Austin native was 20-1 prior to the Open), Fish winning a US Open Series title while making the final of two more and was red-hot this week in Cincinnati. Fish will no doubt be the highest-ranked American in the draw (Roddick is due to fall out of the top 20 next week), but will he go the furthest at Flushing?
You never know what will happen in New York. And have you noticed? Summer has been quite the season for Ryan Harrison, Alex Bogolomov Jr. and James Blake. While it's unlikely, any of those three fellas have a legit shot at making a run at the year's final major. Why not?! So this week, we wonder: Which American will have the best US Open? Vote below and argue your case in the comments.
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Shame on you, Republican Party. And how dare you claim to speak for the American people. You do not speak for the poor, the elderly, the sick, the unemployed and underemployed, the victims of gun violence and the undocumented immigrants who are helping to build this country (and saving many older cities that would be dying without them). And you do not speak for me.
To use the budget process as a back-door way to eliminate Obamacare is reprehensible. This law was passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the president of the United States. And you, who claim to be champions of the U.S. Constitution, are willing to sacrifice this document, blackmail the people of this country, degrade the country's credit rating, increase unemployment and economic instability, and make this country the laughing stock of the world (or worse), to achieve — what? In your heart of hearts, are you trying to bring down President Barack Obama? Are you trying to destroy a health care plan that finally gives everyone the right to health care (which will benefit all of us in the long run). On the budget, you are not looking for Democratic compromises on spending (many of which have been given over the past two years), you are looking only for the destruction of Obamacare.
Of course, one of your perpetual smoke screens in defending your position is that "it is too costly." Please spare us. Where were all of you during the 2000-2008 George W. Bush years when the his administration signed a tax cut to the wealthy into law, even as we were going into a very expensive ($12 billion per month), protracted war based on untruths. Where were you as Wall Street was pushing arcane and financially risky mortgage-backed securities and credit default swaps to banks, pension funds, and even countries overseas? Where were you during the real estate bubble when mortgage companies were misguiding people, approving loans and putting millions of people in houses they could not afford? And where were you as the deficit piled up at record rates during those years? Oh, and here is another thought: Suppose, at budget time during the Bush years, a segment of Congress decided to oppose any budget unless the tax reduction law was abolished and troops were pulled from Iraq. What would your position have been?
All of the above brought this country to its knees and created a world-wide economic crisis of instability and unemployment that plagues us to this day! All of the above has hurt all of us. And, please note, this world-wide disaster was caused by a handful of rich companies and rich people who wanted to get richer, not by the poor and elderly who you are so willing to sacrifice under the guise of fiscal reform.
For all of the above reasons, I am dumbfounded, puzzled, and disappointed in the defense of the GOP and tea party obstruction by The Sun's Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and Peter Morici.
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Anyway, I wrote down something that reminded me of Obama. No, not his special appeal for women. It was this passage of dialogue:
Marcia Jeffries: You always drink like that?Composite! Marcia Jeffries, the woman who discovers him for her radio show called "A Face in the Crowd" offers him the word "composite" to dignify his bullshit, and he does a little word play that rejects euphemism.
Lonesome Rhodes: Not always. Back in Riddle they was pretty strict. Didn't allow us to touch hard liquor till we was 10 or 11.
Marcia Jeffries: Now is there really a town called Riddle?
Lonesome Rhodes: Well, tell you the flat truth, it's just a sort of a whatchacallit, a...
Marcia Jeffries: ... Composite?
Lonesome Rhodes: Compost heap's more like it.
Obama's use of "composites" is well-discussed in the David Maraniss biography:
In his introduction [to Dreams from My Father] Obama states, "For the sake of compression, some of the characters that appear are composites of people I've known, and some events appear out of precise chronology." There is more to it than that. The character creations and rearrangements of the book are not merely a matter of style, devices of compression, but are also substantive. The themes of the book control character and chronology. Time and again the narrative accentuates characters drawn from black acquaintances who played lesser roles in his real life but could be used to advance a line of thought, while leaving out or distorting the actions of friends who happened to be white. Sometimes the composites are even more complex; there are a few instances where black figures in the book have characteristics and histories that Obama took from white friends. The racial scene in his family history that is most familiar to the public, the time when he overheard his grandparents in Hawaii argue because his grandmother was afraid of a black man at the bus stop, also happens to be among those he pulled out of its real chronology and fit into a place where it might have more literary resonance. Like many other riffs in the book, it explored the parameters and frustrations of his blackness....Composite/compost heap?
For a few years, in ninth and tenth grade, he shared his frustrations with a student two grades ahead of him named Keith Kakugawa. 178 In his memoir, he reinvented Kakugawa as a character called Ray who served a literary function as a symbol of young blackness, a mix of hot anger and cool detachment, the provocateur of hip, vulgar, get-real dialogues. In fact, Kakugawa was another hapa student, with a black and Native American mother and a Japanese father. Somewhere between pseudonymous and fictitious, Ray was the first of several distorted or composite characters employed in Dreams from My Father for similar purposes. Kakugawa was never in Barry's closest gang of friends, but they did hang out now and then for those two years, and Barry felt freer to let down his guard around him, enjoying "his warmth and brash humor." In the memoir Barry and Ray could be heard complaining about how rich white haole girls would never date them. In fact, neither had much trouble in that regard; Kakugawa dated an admiral's daughter from the officers' housing near Pearl Harbor and had the keys to her car, which he often drove around with "the Kid," as he called Barry. In the book, Ray complained about "white folks this or white folks that," a phrase that Barry found "uncomfortable" in his mouth because he unavoidably thought of his mother's smile. But the Kid could grouse about his mother nonetheless. "If anyone heard a word from him when he was upset, I did," Kakugawa recalled. "If I was mad at something he was mad at something. What was upsetting him— that his mother took off again. Seems like she never has time for him anymore— that kind of thing."
In a less visceral and more lighthearted intellectual fashion, Barry also shared some of his inner thoughts with Tony Peterson, a graduating senior during Barry's freshman year. 179 Peterson, who came from a military family at Schofield Barracks, was the only black student in his 1976 class and one of a handful at Punahou, counting the hapa students like Kakugawa, Obama, and Rik Smith, whose mother was Indian. (Joella Edwards, who was in Barry's class, left Punahou in ninth grade.) When Peterson first heard that the black Ray in Obama's memoir was Kakugawa, he was surprised. "When I think of the black kids at Punahou, I don't think of Keith because he was half Japanese," he said later. By his real name or any other, Peterson did not make Obama's book, although some characteristics of a composite character in the college section fit him. He first met Barry on the basketball court before school, and soon started a regular session with him and Rik Smith that they jokingly called Ethnic Corner....
In his memoir Obama would tell a different story about one of the key moments in his gradual transformation from Barry to Barack. He wrote that he was talking to friends named Marcus and Regina. Marcus, portrayed as Afrocentric, had ridiculed him for reading Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Obama had defended himself by saying that he was reading it to understand "just what it is that makes white people so afraid." After Marcus left, Regina— rendered in the memoir as astute and comfortable in her black identity— asked Obama what Marcus had called him, some African name. Barack, he told her. She said she thought his name was Barry. Barack was his given name, he explained. His father's name. His father was Kenyan. Barack meant "blessed" in Arabic. His grandfather was Muslim. "It's beautiful," Regina responded, according to the memoir. "Mind if I call you Barack?" Not as long as she pronounced it right, he said.
Eric Moore was not in Dreams from My Father, nor could he recognize precisely who Marcus and Regina were. Hasan Chandoo, who was portrayed in the book (and, in a rare instance, was given his real name), was not sure either. He himself was accurately depicted, but to him the other composites, he said good-naturedly, seemed like "mumbo-jumbo." At some places in the memoir, the characters were taken from real life but given pseudonyms. At other times they were composites. Marcus and Regina were composites, inspired in part by two upperclassmen, Earl Chew and Sarah Etta-Harris, but displaying characteristics from many other people as well as from the searching, divided soul of Obama himself. Like Regina in the book, Etta-Harris had studied abroad, winning a Thomas Watson fellowship to spend a year in Andalusia in Spain. But in his memoir Obama gave Regina a family history in Chicago, and that did not fit her. Rather, that aspect of Regina was an early iteration of someone Obama had not met at Oxy and would not know for another ten years, Michelle Robinson, to whom he was married by the time he wrote the memoir in the early 1990s. It was not precisely Michelle's story, but close in many respects, as Obama had Regina telling him about her South Side memories: people so hot in the summer they went out by Lake Michigan to sleep; a vibrant community of taverns, pool halls, churches, kitchen nights with cousins, uncles, grandparents. "A vision," he wrote, "that filled me with longing— a longing for place, and a fixed and definite history." When he told Regina that he envied her, she scoffed. "For what?" she asked. "Memories," he said. That response, Obama wrote, made her laugh and say she wished she had grown up in Hawaii.
This was one of the more telling paragraphs in the book, revealing what Obama thought he had missed out on in his young life and what he so dearly longed for. Though he was writing it in retrospect, long after his Oxy days and after he had finally made his way to Chicago, the early Regina, who existed mostly in his mind, helped trace what would become the arc of his life toward family and home.
Along with Etta-Harris and Michelle Robinson, the Regina character also incorporated a third real-life model. Some of Obama's scenes of Regina reflected incidents that involved Caroline Boss, who was white. The name Regina itself likely came out of Obama's discussions with Boss. Regina was the name of her Swiss grandmother, who came up in their discussions about class, race, and gender. Boss was a formidable figure at Oxy, queen of the Cooler rats, star pupil of the school's noted political science professor, Roger Boesche. As leader of the Democratic Socialist Alliance on campus, she viewed politics from a class-conscious socialist perspective. Boss told Obama that her grandmother Regina spent her life scrubbing floors and doing laundry for the banking community in the small Swiss town of Interlaken. "So when we talked about race and class," Boss said of her discussions with Obama, "I of course took the position that class was a significant feature.… The class thing really affects the entire population, regardless of race and gender." Obama incorporated this idea into his memoir. His Regina was black, not white, yet he wrote about "Regina's grandmother somewhere, her back bent, the flesh of her arms shaking as she scrubbed an endless floor. Slowly, the old woman lifted her head to look straight at me, and in her sagging face I saw that what bound us together went beyond anger or despair or pity." He went on to link Regina's grandmother to all women who struggle against the power structure, from the Mexican maids who cleaned up the mess created by the boys at the Haines Hall Annex to his own grandmother, Tut, who rose before dawn every morning to ride the bus to work. "My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't, end there," he wrote.


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U.S. middle blocker Max Holt (Cincinnati, Ohio) led his Italian Serie A league team with 19 points but Copra Elior Piacenza fell to Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia 20-25, 25-22, 18-25, 25-19, 15-11 on Oct. 28. Holt started all three sets and finished with 19 points on 12 attacks, four blocks and three aces. U.S. outside hitter Futi Tavana (Saipipi, Samoa) is also on the roster for Piacenza, but did not play.
U.S. outside hitter Jeff Menzel (Santa Barbara, Calif.) scored 10 points as his team Castellana Grotti fell to Casa Modena, 25-27, 25-19, 25-13, 29-27 on Oct. 28. Menzel started the first three sets and scored on 10 attacks.
Andreoli Latina, which includes U.S. opposite Murphy Troy (St. Louis, Mo.), improved to 4-0 in the Italian league with a 25-19, 25-22, 25-20 victory over Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo on Oct. 28. Troy did not play in the match.
In Italy's Serie B league, U.S. outside hitter Garrett Muagututia (Oceanside, Calif.) led Sieco Service Ortona as it fell to Sidigas Atripalda, 23-25, 21-25, 25-17, 26-24, 15-7 on Oct. 27. Muagututia scored 28 points on 24 kills, three blocks and one ace. He was also credited with 18 receptions, 56 percent positive.
U.S. outside hitter Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.), a 2012 Olympian, and his Polish Plus Liga team Asseco Resovia Rzeszów defeated U.S. middle blocker Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.), another 2012 Olympian, and Jastrzębski Węgiel, 25-22, 25-23, 25-23 on Oct. 28.
Lotman played as a substitute in the match and did not score. Holmes started all three sets and scored seven points on five kills, one block and one ace.
To view a photo gallery, click here.
U.S. opposite Carson Clark (Santa Barbara, Calif.) scored 20 points as his French A league team Montpellier defeated AS Cannes, including U.S. outside hitter Robert Tarr (Cape Canaveral, Fla.) and middle blocker Matt Rawson (Los Angeles), 25-18, 21-25, 29-27, 25-21 on Oct. 27.
Clark scored all his points on attacks. Tarr led Cannes with 18 points on 16 attacks (.552 hitting efficiency) and two blocks. He was also credited with 22 receptions, 59 percent positive. Rawson added 10 points on five kills, four blocks and one ace.
U.S. middle blocker David Smith (Saugus, Calif.), a 2012 Olympian, and his team Tours, are now 3-0 I after defeating GVCO Ajaccio VB, 20-25, 18-25, 25-18, 25-19, 15-13 on Oct. 27. Smith started all five sets and scored two points on one kill and one ace.
In France's B league, AS Orange Nassau, including U.S. libero Dustin Watten (Long Beach, Calif.) and outside hitters Damien Scott (Santa Ana, Calif.) and Eric Vance (Camarillo, Calif.) improved to 3-0 after defeating Saint-Brieuc Cotes D'Armor, 25-10, 25-21, 25-16 on Oct. 26. Vance started all three sets and scored 10 points on seven attacks, one block and two aces. He was also credited with 10 receptions, 70 percent positive. Scott finished with six points on three kills and three blocks. Watten was credited with 15 receptions, 67 percent positive.
U.S. outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.), a 2012 Olympian, and his Russian Super League team Zenit Kazan improved to 5-0 after defeating Kuzbass Kemerovo, 25-19, 25-22, 25-21 on Oct. 27. Anderson started the first two sets and scored six points on five kills and one ace. To view a photo gallery, click here.
U.S. opposite David McKienzie (Littleton, Colo.), a 2012 Olympian, is playing for Patriotas de Lares I the Puerto Rican league and led his team to a 25-20, 25-22, 22-25, 25-20 victory over Cariduros de Fajardo on Oct. 26. McKienzie led all scorers with 21 points on 18 kills, one block and two aces.
On Oct. 25, U.S. opposite Evan Patak (Pleasanton, Calif.) scored 23 points on 22 kills and one ace as Plataneros de Corozal defeated Capitanes de Arecibo, 25-22, 20-25, 29-27, 25-16.
To view photos from Puerto Rico league matches, click here.
In the Turkish league, U.S. setter Kevin Hansen (Newport Beach, Calif.), a 2008 Olympian, and Arkas Spor defeated U.S. outside hitter Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.), a 2004, '08 and '12 Olympian, and Halkbank Ankara, 25-20, 25-21, 26-24. Hansen started all three sets and set his team to a 61.3 kill percent and a .563 hitting efficiency. He also scored two points on a kill and an ace. Priddy started all three sets and scored four points on four attacks.
U.S. setter Donald Suxho (Korce, Albania), a 2004 and '12 Olympian, and his Argentina league team Drean Bolivar finished fourth at the ACLAV Cup. The team fell to Sarmiento Santana Textiles, 25-20, 19-25, 14-25, 25-19, 16-14 in the third-place match on Oct. 29. League play in Argentina will begin Nov. 8.
The Finnish team Raision Loimu, which includes three U.S. players, fell to Hurrikaani Loimaa, 25-22, 25-17, 23-25, 25-16 on Oct. 29. U.S. outside hitter Jordan Dufault (Lakewood, Calif.) started all four sets and scored 13 points on 10 kills and three blocks. He was also credited with 22 receptions, 55 percent positive. U.S. middle blocker Dan McDonnell (Glendale, Ariz.) added two points on two kills. U.S. opposite Dean Bittner (Lakewood, Calif.) started the first two sets and scored six points on four kills and two aces. To view a photo gallery, click here.
In Pool B, U.S. outside hitter Scott Touzinsky (St. Louis, Mo.), a 2008 Olympian, setter Kawika Shoji (Honolulu, Hawaii) and Germany's Berlin Recycling Volleys defeated Czech Republic's visiting Jihostroj Ceske Budejovice, 27-25, 25-22, 25-20, on Oct. 25. Touzinsky was named best receiver after being credited with 25 receptions, 84 percent positive and 28 percent perfect. He also scored eight points on seven attacks and one block. Shoji scored five points on four blocks and one kill. He set the team to a 44.6 kill percent and a .373 hitting efficiency. To view a photo gallery, click here. Berlin will travel to Russia to play Lokomotiv Novosibirsk on Oct. 31.
In Pool G, Paul Lotman and Asseco Resovia Rzeszów defeated host Arago de Sete of France, 25-23, 25-22, 13-25, 25-19 on Oct. 25. To view a photo gallery, click here. Resovia Rzeszów will host Romania's Remat Zalau, which includes U.S. setter Jonathan Winder (Irvine, Calif.) on Oct. 31.
Champions League matches can be viewed live at laola1.tv.
Murphy Troy and Italy's Andreoli Latina defeated host Bulgaria's CSKA Sofia, 25-17, 25-14, 25-21, on Oct. 24 in the first round of CEV Cup matches. The two teams will meet again in Italy on Nov. 1.
Russell Holmes and Jastrzębski Węgiel defeated visiting France's Rennes Volley, 25-22, 25-23, 30-28 on Oct. 24. The two teams will meet again Oct. 31 in France.
Reid Priddy and Turkey's Halkbank Ankara were defeated by host Delecta Bydgoszcz, 25-22, 25-22, 29-27 on Oct. 24. The two teams will play again on Nov. 1 in Turkey.
U.S. opposite Brook Billings, a 2004 Olympian, and Turkey's Istanbul BBSK have qualified for the Challenge Cup after two victories over Metallurg Zhlobin of Belarus. On Oct. 20, visiting Istanbul defeated Zhlobin, 22-25, 23-25, 25-22, 25-22, 15-9 in Belarus. On Oct. 27, host Istanbul defeated Zhlobin, 25-23, 25-20, 25-17. In the next round, Istanbul will take on Max Holt and Copra Elior Piacenza of Italy.


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Christian Fiction
January 2019
Recent Releases
A Seat by the Hearth
Amy Clipston
What it is:
a touching modern Amish romance with a marriage-of-convenience theme.
desperate Priscilla, who leaves her abusive boyfriend, and
with nowhere else to go,
returns to her Amish roots with
her out-of-wedlock six-year-old son in tow
; and handsome, fun-loving Amish farmer Mark,
who works at the horse farm owned by Priscilla's strict father
Series alert:
This 3rd in the Amish Homestead series tells Mark Reihl's story; the 4th entry,
A Welcome at Our Door
, comes out in May and is about his sister Cindy.
Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra
Angela Hunt
Salome Alexandra, an intelligent child who moves to Jerusalem with her mother to live with wealthier cousins after the deaths of her father and sister...and eventually becomes queen of Judea.
Series alert:
This is prolific author Angela Hunt's 3rd Silent Years novel, set during the 400-year period between the Old and New Testaments; look for the concluding volume,
King's Shadow
, this summer.
Read it for:
a clever heroine and a richly detailed historical story.
On Magnolia Lane
Denise Hunter
What happens:
Flower store owner Daisy has often met with Pastor Jack
for spiritual counseling
...and he has fallen for her. Since their small Georgia town isn't overflowing with young men, Daisy uses a dating app. Jack's friends find out and set up a profile for him using his initials...and Daisy connects with "TJ" online.
Series alert:
This is the heartwarming 3rd book in the Blue Ridge Romance series, though fans of the author's standalone novel
Sweetbriar Cottage
will also recognize a few characters.
Tell Her No Lies
Kelly Irvin
Nina Fischer, who was adopted by her uncle, a church-going judge, after her mother abandoned her.
What happens:
After her uncle is murdered, Nina becomes the San Antonio cops' number one suspect. To find the real killer, she gets help from the two men in her life -- her childhood friend, who's now a lawyer, and
a news videographer she's working with on an art project -- and
unearths shocking secrets about her own family.
Is it for you?
If you like romantic suspense with strong Christian elements and a love triangle, give Kelly Irvin's latest a try.
Family Secrets
The Inn at Ocean's Edge
Colleen Coble
businesswoman Claire Dellamore, who goes to a Maine hotel for work and inexplicably has a severe panic attack.
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While walking on the beach nearby, s
he meets Luke Elwell, home on leave from the Coast Guard, and learns that her family hid the fact that she went missing from the hotel as a child, and that Luke's mother also disappeared then...but was never found.
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This is the
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Her Secret
Shelley Shepard Gray
Hannah Hilty, the 20-year-old Amish victim of an English stalker, whom she hopes she's left behind in Ohio when her family moves to quiet Hart County, Kentucky, for a fresh start.
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The Hiltys have
trouble adjusting (
especially Hannah's siblings), friends are made (including handsome Isaac Troyer), upsetting secrets come to light, a health crisis occurs, and the stalker returns.
Series alert:
This is the opening book in in the Amish of Hart County series, which are charming
Amish romances with suspenseful elements
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Jan Karon
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he receives an anonymous letter reading "come home,"
newly retired Episcopal priest Father Tim returns to his Mississippi hometown for the first time in decades, an event that leads to his discovery of long-buried secrets.
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Lady Jayne Disappears
Joanna Davidson Politano
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witty Victorian romance and story-within-a-story that calls to mind the world of Charles Dickens.
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After her novelist father dies, Aurelie Harcourt
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Room for Hope
Kim Vogel Sawyer
Neva Shilling, a shop owner who grew up an orphan and is a mom to two teenagers in 1930s Kansas; Arthur, a widowed neighbor who wants to buy her store; and
Jesse Caudel, the kind new sheriff
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A shocked Neva learns her husband is dead, along with his secret second wife, and that their three small children need a home.
For fans of:
Depression-era historical novels,
thought-provoking stories of forgiveness, and Isaiah 40:29.
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Twelve teams of emerging writers, directors, animators and producers have been shortlisted for the Scottish Shorts programme 2012/13.
The 12 live action and animation films will be developed over the next few months before being pitched to an industry panel. Four projects will then be selected for production in spring 2013.
The budget range for commissions is between £5,000 and £20,000.
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They will offer support and expertise to the chosen film-makers, helping to create projects and equipping film-makers with the skills to break into features and promote their work on a national and international platform.
- As He Lay Uncertain
Writer/Director: Ian Waugh
- Exchange and Mart
Writer/Director: Cara Connolly & Martin Clark
- Frankie & Adam (Animation/Live Action)
Director: Michael Hughes; Writer/Director: Jessica Connell
- Hedgehog (Animation)
Writer/Director: Ania Leszczynska; Co-writer & Producer: Jessica Connell
- Monkey Love Experiments (Animation)
Writer/Director: Ainslie Henderson
- Mourn
Writer/Director: Ian Robertson; Producer/Co-writer: Sam Ferguson.
- Take Your Partners
Writer/Director: Siri Rodnes
- The House that Makes Children Old
Director: Matt Cameron; Writer: Tom K McCarthy
- The Whale's Song (Animation)
Writer/Director: Andy Kaiser; Joseph Atkinson
- Untitled ProjectWriter/Director: Martin Smith
- Wild
Writer/Director: Alasdair Bayne
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Writer/Director: Rory Alexander Stewart